Wednesday, April 19 at 6:30 p.m.
Selected Shorts: Borders and Boundaries
Where: Symphony Space: 2537 Broadway at 95th St.
Tickets: $25/$21; students and seniors, $23/$19
Purchase tickets from Symphony Space: (212) 864-5400 or www.symphonyspace.org
Actors Robert Sean Leonard, Marian Seldes, and Arthur French read stories by Chinua Achebe, Etgar Keret, and Dubravka Ugresic.
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Wednesday, April 19 at 7 p.m.
Who's Afraid of Iran?
Shohreh Aghdashloo, Sussan Deyhim, Roya Hakakian, Azar Nafisi, Shirin Neshat, and Lila Azam Zanganeh
As the media tracks the growing nuclear threat of Iran and its
potential as an ideological powder keg, the Islamic Republic looms
larger than ever in the American imagination.Yet beneath it all,
Iranians remain shrouded in myth and stereotypes. So who in the world
are Iranians in these shifting times?
Where: The New York Public Library, Celeste Bartos Forum: 5th Ave. & 42nd St. (Enter on 42nd St.)
Tickets: $15 general admission/$10 library donors, seniors, and students with valid ID
Smarttix: (212) 868-4444 or www.smarttix.com
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Tuesday, April 25 at 6 p.m.
Reading: Silvia Bonucci, winner of the
Zerilli-Marim Prize for Italian narrative
Where: Casa Italiana Zerili-Marimò at NYU: 24 West 12th St.
Tickets: Free; (212) 998-8730
Co-sponsor: Casa delle Letterature of the City of Rome |
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Wednesday, April 26 at 6 p.m.
Reading: Voices From Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
Where: Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: 126 Crosby St.
Tickets: Free; (212) 334-3324
Writers read from Alexievich’s Voices From Chernobyl (winner of the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction) to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the explosion of Chernobyl’s nuclear power plant.
Presented by The National Book Critics Circle
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Thursday, April 27 at 2 p.m.
New African Writing: Reading and Roundtable Discussion
Helon Habila, Rashida Ismaili, Ali Jimale Ahmed, Tuzyline Jita Allan, Okey Ndibe
Acclaimed and emergent writers read from their latest works and discuss the challenges facing the African writer in the diaspora.
Where: Africa House at NYU: 51 East 11th St., Room 741
Tickets: Free; (212) 244-3123
Presented by Global Information Network and Africa World Press |
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Thursday, April 27 at 7 p.m.
The Agha Shahid Ali Memorial Reading:
A Celebration of Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwish
Breyten Breytenbach, Carolyn Forché, Marilyn Hacker, Elias Khoury, Venus Khoury-Ghata, Jeffrey Sacks
Where: Greenberg Lounge at NYU: Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Sq. South
Tickets: Free; (212) 998-8816
Presented by the NYU Creative Writing Program
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